We think of chemical weapons as one of the horrifying features of modern warfare. We might assume that it all started with…
Just west of the entrance to the underworld, lies the site of Baia. Mike Cless takes us there, tells of a divine…
Richard Hodges writes from Philadelphia, USA…
I chose this book because it covers one of the most interesting and important periods of human prehistory, the origins and expansion…
The discovery of an unidentified and unexplained mummy, labelled Unknown Man E, in the Royal Cache tomb in Ancient Thebes, prompted the…
This is the book of the British Museum exhibition – a dazzling, kaleidoscopic view of the clay figurines of the earliest farmers…
And now for something completely different… the title might be a bit off-putting but the principal author, Chris Evans, is one of…
In 1907 two great Welsh institutions were founded – the National Library and the National Museum. One year later a third was…
Produced to mark the 10th anniversary of the open-air Palaeolithic art of Portugal’s Côa Valley becoming a World Heritage site, this beautiful…
From the pyramids of Egypt, to St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, via the Parthenon, Petra, and Pompeii, Charles Freeman’s latest book covers…
Visitors to Johannesburg can visit, in the grounds of the University of Witwatersrand, the outstanding Origins Centre. In this book the Centre’s…
This is a novel set in the reign of Tutankhamun, but also about Howard Carter’s work in Egypt, his partnership with Lord…
Visitors to the Wellcome Collection in London’s Euston Road cannot fail to be intrigued by the man behind it, the American-born pharmaceutical…